microcontroller
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Self-Playing Ukulele with Stepper and Servo Mechanisms for Strumming and Fretting Zeroshot, known for his focus on innovative projects, has channeled his expertise into creating a self-playing robotic ukulele which can autonomously strum melodies. The ukulele can be played by picking individual strings or by strumming many strings simultaneously. This dual-purpose mechanism is the foundation of Zeroshot's design. It achieves this by utilizing two actuators: a… |
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AIROC CYW20829 Family Expanded with Bluetooth 5.4 MCUs for Diverse Use Cases Infineon Technologies has added eight new products to its AIROC™ CYW20829 Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4 microcontroller (MCU) family. These include System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions and modules designed for industrial, consumer, and automotive applications. The CYW20829 family is designed to reduce both the cost and size of devices, making them ideal for use in products like… |
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Simplifying MCU Programming with LED as Light Sensors When designing a microcontroller-based product, it is crucial to include a programming connector on the PCB. Without it, flashing the firmware to the MCU becomes impossible. However, this connector can take up precious board space, which is a significant issue for size-constrained designs. To address this, designers often use techniques like test points with specialized jigs or… |
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Getting Started with the MAX78000 Feather Development Board When it comes to the development board there are a ton of choices to choose from, such as Arduino boards, ESP32 development boards, STM32 Nucleo and Discovery boards, Teensy Boards, STM8 development boards and many more. However, the problem with most of these boards is that it is hard to find a price-to-performance balance. They are either cheap and lack… |
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Getting started with Arduino UNO R4 & Arduino IoT Cloud If you are a maker or an electronics enthusiast, then you must be familiar with the Arduino platform and their boards. As we know, the Arduino platform made it easier for makers like us to make our own microcontroller projects with ease and versatility. Even though there are many Arduino boards, the Arduino Uno has become the most popular Arduino board and still is… |
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How to Program ESP32 CAM using Arduino IDE? Unlike other ESP Development Boards, the ESP32-CAM has no USB connector to connect it to a computer. This might be confusing for beginners when they try to program this development board for the first time, so in this article lets learn how to program the ESP32-CAM module using the Arduino IDE. Before we start, I assume you know the basics about the ESP32-… |
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How to Program ESP32 CAM using Arduino? Unlike other ESP Development Boards, the ESP32-CAM has no USB connector to connect it to a computer. This might be confusing for beginners when they try to program this development board for the first time, so in this article lets learn how to program the ESP32-CAM module using the Arduino IDE. Before we start, I assume you know the basics about the ESP32-CAM module… |
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Apple Introduces Embedded Swift for Microcontrollers Apple has introduced Embedded Swift, a streamlined adaptation of its Swift programming language designed just for microcontrollers. The current beta version supports multiple microcontrollers ranging from the Espressif ESP32-C6 wireless RISC-V microcontroller and other ARM microcontrollers from STMicroelectronics, Raspberry Pi, and Nordic Semiconductor. Originally… |
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Open-Source Portable Soldering Iron Compatible with Weller RT Tips Nowadays you can find a ton of portable soldering irons in the marker. The main selling point of all of them, compared to old-style soldering irons, is that they are temperature-controllable and can be powered from battery packs of PD-compatible power banks or charges, making them truly portable. TS100 and TS80 from Miniware and the open-source soldering iron Pinecil… |
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Creating a Handheld VOIP Phone with Raspberry Pi Pico W Derek Woodroffe from Extreme Electronics is working on a portable VOIP handset called the Pi Tele Cow, which utilizes the Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller. This innovative device features a 15-key keypad, microphone, speaker, and display, all powered by a rechargeable battery. Woodroffe describes the Pi Tele Cow as a straightforward VOIP/SIP handset that uses the… |
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256 Core Supercluster with the 10-cent Microcontroller Nowadays we have seen super cheap microcontrollers running neural network, now they are running superclusters. Maker and Youtuber Bitluni has showcased his 256-core supercluster using the infamous 10-cent CH32V003 RISC-V microcontrollers. Previously Bitluni, himself has created a 16-core cluster board using this very own MCU. This early model featured an 8-bit data… |
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High Accuracy Low-Bit Quantized Neural Networks on a 10-cent Microcontroller The BitNetMCU initiative streamlines the development of highly accurate neural networks for basic microcontrollers, such as the CH32V003, the famous 10 cents RISC-V MCU from WCH. Although recent attention has been on sophisticated AI tools like large language models and image generators, simpler AI applications are proving valuable across various sectors. For example… |
